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Thursday, March 1, 2012

ScienceDaily: Living Well News

ScienceDaily: Living Well News


Who's in the know? To a preschooler, the person doing the pointing

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 12:55 PM PST

If you want a preschooler to get the point, point. That's a lesson that can be drawn from a new study. As part of their investigation of how small children know what other people know, the authors found they were able to mislead preschoolers with the simple introduction of a pointing gesture.

The ever-expanding definition of 'diversity'

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:11 AM PST

Diversity has become a goal for all sorts of institutions -- but what it means may depend on who you ask. A new study finds that people's ideologies help determine what they count as "diverse."

Two genes do not make a voter

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 09:11 AM PST

Voting behavior cannot be predicted by one or two genes as previous researchers have claimed, according to a professor of public policy and political science.

Winning makes people more aggressive toward the defeated

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 07:47 AM PST

In this world, there are winners and losers – and, for your own safety, it is best to fear the winners.

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